Arc radiotherapy treatments: Breakthrough in image-guided targeting of prostate tumors
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »Researchers at Stanford University (California, USA) and Aarhus University Hospital (Aarhus, Denmark), partially supported by Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR), have made a breakthrough in image-guided targeting of prostate tumors during arc radiotherapy treatments. The research team has devised a ...
Metastasis after radical prostatectomy or external beam radiotherapy for
Monday, March 1st, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »A study at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, assessed the effect of radical prostatectomy and external beam radiotherapy on distant metastases rates in patients with localized prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy or external beam radiotherapy at a single ...
Stereotactic body radiotherapy for organ-confined prostate cancer
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »Urologists suggest that the potential to reduce treatment-related morbidity and maintain quality of life following prostate cancer treatment will depend by improved understanding of prostate cancer radiobiology combined with advances in delivery of radiation to the moving prostate offer A recent ...
Management of prostate cancer recurrence after definitive radiation therapy
Monday, February 8th, 2010 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »The management of prostate cancer recurrence after definitive radiation therapy is shifting and there is no consensus regarding the optimal strategy. The major challenge is determining the anatomical site of relapse. In case of biochemical relapse, androgen deprivation therapy is ...
Mortality in men with localized prostate cancer treated with brachytherapy with or without neoadjuvant hormone therapy
Sunday, January 24th, 2010 Posted in hormone therapy, radiation therapy | No Comments »Discrepancies exist regarding the impact of neoadjuvant hormone therapy (NHT) on the risk of all-cause mortality (ACM) in men who receive brachytherapy for localized prostate cancer. Therefore, the latest study at Harvard Radiation Oncology Program, Boston, Massachusetts targeted to examine ...
Is radical prostatectomy the standard for localized prostate cancer?
Friday, January 15th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »A new study at University of Florida aims to review the pertinent literature and compare the outcomes after radical prostatectomy (RP) and radiotherapy (RT). Experts agree tha the probability of cure is similar after either RP or RT, but the likelihood ...
quality of life in prostate cancer patients 12 months after radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy
Friday, December 4th, 2009 Posted in prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »A new study at University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, aims to examine and compare changes in quality of life after two common treatments for prostate cancer (PC), radical prostatectomy (RP) and radiation therapy (RT). Patients newly diagnosed with localized PC, ...
Radical radiotherapy for prostate cancer is the ‘only way to go’
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »Management options for localized prostate cancer include radical prostatectomy (RP), radiation therapy (external-beam radiation therapy [EBRT] or brachytherapy), with and without androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT), or active surveillance, also known as watchful waiting. Ultimately, the choice of treatment is determined by a ...
Chemo-radiation before prostate removal may prevent cancer recurrence
Sunday, November 15th, 2009 Posted in prostate chemotherapy, radiation therapy | No Comments »Experts agree that in men with aggressive prostate cancer, standard therapies such as radiation or surgery often fail to eliminate the cancer completely at the site of treatment. When these cancers recur, they are often fatal Recently, researchers in the Oregon ...
Incidence and prevalence of late gastrointestinal side effects after dose-escalated conformal radiotherapy for early prostate cancer
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »A recent study at Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, Bebington, United Kingdom, concluded that in men with localized prostate cancer, dose-escalated conformal radiotherapy (CFRT) improves efficacy outcomes at the cost of increased toxicity. Acording to study findings, there is a statistically significant ...